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New 'girls' join Southend vehicle fleet

Loo-Loo and Aqua are the latest additions with their own unique girl's names to join the vehicle fleet at London Southend Airport.



Above: Trucks line up (left to right), Loo-Loo, Rebecca, Jo, Anne, Tracy, Fuell-Upa, Cand-Ice, Tracy, Sam, Anne & Aqua.

London Southend Airport is owned by the Stobart Group, and every single Eddie Stobart vehicle is identified by a unique girl's name – and the fleet of vehicles at London Southend Airport is no exception.

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Loo-Loo – as her name suggests – is a truck designed specifically to remove waste from aircraft. Aqua supplies aircraft with fresh water. The pair represent a £200,000 investment in the vehicle fleet at London Southend Airport, to provide additional resilience as the airport grows.

Yesterday the new girls lined up alongside fuel bowser’s Gas-o-Lina and Phil-Uppa, de-icer Cand-ice, along with electronic baggage trucks and push back tugs with the London Southend Airport staff members they are named after (Jo, Rebecca and Sam), on the airport apron.

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Above: (left to right) Loo-Loo, Rebecca, Jo, Anne, Tracy, Fuell-Upa, Cand-Ice, Tracy, Sam, Anne & Aqua with (left to right) Gary Miller (rampee), Rebecca Jones (marketing co-ordinator), Jo Marchetti (community affairs), Louie Berry (rampee), Sam Vinney (finance officer) & David Morris (rampee).

 

 

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